An update on the babie(s)

I must apologize for not updating until now. As you may know, i found out in the beginning of July that i was pregnant.
For at least 3 weeks after i found out i was pregnant, I've made a couple different stops at the Emergency Room. The doctors there put me under as a "Threatened Miscarriage" status. During one of my visits a doctor told me that it was probably too early to get a heart-beat on the ultrasound, and that i needed to let nature take its course and i would know if i were to miscarry within a couple days. I was in excruciating pain every other day or so after that visit for a little over a week.


Finally i thought to myself; it might be appendicitis. I decided to go to the ER again. This time, a different doctor, had another ultrasound done and told me he was glad i came in. I was hemorrhaging. What the previous doctor had failed to tell me was that the baby wasn't too early to get a heartbeat from, and he was destined to miscarry. There would have been a heartbeat if the baby were alive at 6.5 weeks. This latest doctor asked me if i had been on any fertility pills. I was in shock and almost laughed at his question. I had been carrying twins. He continued to tell that the baby that was there last week was gone, miscarried; but there was another baby. A baby that was still living and growing in my left fallopian tube, and had caused it to tear. So i had emergency surgery, and at the end of this journey i lost both babies. I wish them both well...




I am truly grateful for such a wonderful husband. He stayed beside me the whole time. With the help of my mom and dad, my DD was well taken care of. This experience has made me feel even more blessed with my life.

Surprise!

I just recently found out I'm pregnant! And the plan to move to Mexico is still on! So i will be having our next bundle of joy in Mexico, and for this pregnancy I'm bound and determined to have a natural at home birth.


With my first pregnancy with my DD i couldn't feel a thing... I was so hyped up on medication to help me sleep through labor, that my nurse gave me three hours before starting, and an epidural that my nurse said i needed 'because i wasn't strong enough to handle the pain', that i couldn't enjoy the feeling of having succeeded in one of the first steps to becoming a mother. So right after birth, though i love my DD with all my heart, i felt detached. Of course that changed over the next hour i held her in my arms, but i still regretted my whole birthing experience. Which is why this time around I'm want to have it all natural!


We will still not be leaving for Mexico for another 6 weeks, so until then i will be doing some of my OB visits here in the states. Then my next task will be finding una partera (midwife), in Mexico. And though i thought this would be easy, its proving rather difficult. Mis suegros (my in-laws) say that no one uses them anymore, and so there are none. But you bet I'm gonna have to have a look when i get down there! I'm a very stubborn mommy lol


I will be using this of course as a way to help others who may like information regarding having a baby in Mexico, based on my experiences, so stay tuned.


And if anyone that reads this has ANY information on a midwife in Puerto Vallarta, please Please PLEASE let me know! It will be greatly appreciated.